How to recover lost form data in your Web browser - englesdoony1936

The other day I spent a goodly amount of time written material a web log Wiley Post. This blog post, in point of fact. As always, I composed it exploitation PC International's browser-based tool, saved it, previewed it, then publicised it.

But somewhere along the way, a glitch Ate my post. (Verbalise about the mod equivalent of "the dog Ate my homework.") When I realized that IT hadn't appeared online, I went stake to the web log tool to investigate, and discovered, to my horror, that only the first paragraph survived. Everything else: gone.

I think this kind of thing happens to everyone: You spend time running in a web log creature or other web browser-settled constitute, and suddenly things a-ok evil. Your browser crashes, the server multiplication taboo, your Internet connection dies, and boom: all your touchy work is gone.

In my case, I got apotropaic: I'd installed Lazarus. Visible for Chrome and Firefox, this browser add-on lives adequate its name by bringing back thoughtful form data from the dead.

Lazarus mechanically (and firmly, with a password if you favor) saves all keystroke you enter into whatsoever Web form, blog tool, scuttlebutt box seat, or the equal.

To bring back your information, just look for the wee Lazarus symbol in the top-right corner of whatever field or box you were typewriting in. Clack information technology, and so take the text you want to recover. Presto! It reappears like-minded magic.

I've written active this little miracle prole before, and I'll no doubt do thusly again, because it has saved my bacon more multiplication than I can count–including this occasion. I consider it an essential tool for Chrome and Firefox users.

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For more than 20 years, Rick Broida has written about whol fashion of technology, from Amigas to business servers to PalmPilots. His credits include dozens of books, blogs, and magazines. He sleeps with an iPad low his pillow.